[Python-Dev] 2.5.2 release coming up

[Brett Cannon]

On Jan 22, 2008 8:47 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> While the exact release schedule for 2.5.2 is still up in the air, I
> expect that it will be within a few weeks. This means that we need to
> make sure that anything that should go into 2.5.2 goes in ASAP,
> preferably this week. It also means that we should be very careful
> what goes in though -- and we should be paying particular attention to
> stability on all platforms! Fortunately it looks like quite a few 2.5
> buildbots are green: http://python.org/dev/buildbot/2.5/
>
> I propose that anything that ought to go into 2.5.2 (or should be
> reviewed for suitability to go into it) should be marked "urgent" in
> the tracker, *and* have its version set to (or include) "Python 2.5".
>
> Also, *nothing* should go into the 2.4 branch any more *except*
> important security patches. If we're doing a security release, it'll
> most likely be a source-only release, and it will differ from 2.4.4
> only in that it will have some new security patches defined.
>
> A reminder: 2.5.2 should only get bugfixes, new features.

If Guido felt like dragging the time machine out he would catch his
mistake and have that say "NO new features".

-Brett